Grimes
Soprano · Electronic · Synth-Pop · Alternative · Canada · prominent since 2012
How Grimes uses that range
Head voice does most of the work: Grimes sings in a small, breathy, girlish placement, stacking self-harmonies instead of projecting one big line. Belts near Bb5 are bright yelps, punched and released, and her occasional whistle-territory peaks toward G6 arrive as pure, needle-thin tones. Down at D3 the voice turns to soft speech. The trap in copying her is treating breathiness as weakness — the pitch centering under all that air is exact, and the mic does the projection.
What is Grimes’s vocal range?
Grimes's vocal range is commonly cited as D3 to G6 — about 3.4 octaves, or 41 semitones, and is usually classified as soprano. Full voice is cited up to around A#5 (Bb5); everything above that comes from head voice or whistle register.
Wispy, girlish electronic soprano — cooing head-voice choirs, soft spoken lows, and sudden piercing peaks.
- Signature song
- Oblivion
Reading the numbers
- That floor is a full 10 semitones beneath where a soprano's range conventionally starts (C4).
- The span runs 8.5 semitones past the median voice in this library (32.5 semitones).
- Roughly 22% of the span sits above the cited full-voice ceiling of A#5.
- The weight of the range is above middle C: 31 semitones up there against 10 below.
- The closest range in the library belongs to Faouzia (C#3–G6), within 1 semitone at both ends.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
More about Grimes’s voice
How high can Grimes sing?
Grimes is commonly cited singing up to around A#5 (Bb5) in full voice, and as high as G6 overall — the stretch above A#5 comes from head voice and whistle register.
What is Grimes’s highest note?
Grimes’s highest note is commonly cited as G6, heard in Circumambient. That note sits in whistle register.
What is Grimes’s lowest note?
Grimes’s lowest note is commonly cited as D3, heard in We Appreciate Power.
How many octaves can Grimes sing?
Grimes’s commonly cited range spans about 3.4 octaves (41 semitones), from D3 up to G6. That span is wider than 79% of the 636 voices in this library.
Take the free 2-minute range test — your mic finds your lowest and highest notes, then this page shows exactly how your voice lines up with Grimes’s.
Also bottoming out on D3
35 other voices here are cited to the same floor.